WEBVTT THEY REACHED OUT TO US ONFACEBOOK.12 NEWS KENT WAINSCOTT GOT SOMEANSWERS.>> LOOK AT THIS.YOU SEEN THIS STUFF?>> IT WAS THE STRANGE SUBSTANCEFLOATING ON THE MILWAUKEE RIVERON MONDAY.>> IT'S LIKE SOME KIND OFSLUDGE.>> PEDRO RODRIGUEZ SAW IT FROMHIS OFFICE WINDOW, BUT STILLISN'T SURE EXACTLY WHAT HE SAW.>> IT LOOKED LIKE GREASE, JUSTLIKE BACON GREASE.>> I SAW THIS YELLOW SWIRLING,SCUM.>> JOSH GORDON, WHO WALKS THISSTRETCH OF RIVER EVERY DAY,ISN'T SURE HOW TO DESCRIBE IT.>> I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING THATCOLOR BEFOREBECAUSE IT WAS REALLY YELLOW.THAT LOOKS NASTY.>> YET, IT IS, LIKE SOME KIND OFPOLLUTION.>> SEVERAL PEOPLE TOOK PHOTOS.BUT BY MORNING, IT WAS GONE,WITHOUT A TRACE.SO, THEN ADDED TO THE MYSTERYOF WHAT IT WAS AND WHERE IT CAMEFROM, SUDDENLY THE QUESTION WAS,WHERE DID IT GO?>> A TOTAL MYSTERY.A TOTAL MYSTERY.>> BUT NOT TO EVERYONE.>> YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT ITIS.>> I THINK I KNOW.>> ELLIE KIRKWOOD OF THE RIVERREVITALIZATION FOUNDATION SAYSTHERE'S A SIMPLE EXPLANATION.>> IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S JUST SOMESLUSH THAT'S JUST STARTING TOFREEZE AND FOLD OVER ON ITSELF.>> SOME DISSOLVED, AND THE RESTTURNED TO ICE.A NATURAL PHENOMENA, SHE SAYS,CAUSED BY THE PERFECT MIX OFTEMPERATURE, WIND, AND A SWOLLENSEDIMENT-FILLED RIVER WITH AUNIQUE LOOK.>> AND THAT YELLOW COLOR IS KINDOF THE COLOR OF OUR WATER HERE. >> AND SO IN THE END, IT REALLYDIDN'T GO ANYWHERE.IT JUST TURNED INTO A THIN LAYEROF ICE ON THE RIVER.BUT I CONTINUED THAT THERE WEREA LOT OF PEOPLE CURIOUS ABOUTIT.BOTH THE WISCONSIN DNR AND THEMETROPOLITAN SEWERAGE DISTRICTGOT CALLS FROM PEOPLE WONDERINWHAT IT WAS THEY WERE SEEING OUTHERE ON THE RIVER.PATRICK: KENT, THEY'RE SURE IT'SNOTHING PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALARMEDABOUT?NO, NOT AT ALL.IN FACT, BOTH AGENCIES SENTCREWS TO TEST THE WATER TO MAKESURE THERE WAS NO CONTAMINATIONOR SPILL

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Updated: 8:55 AM PDT Mar 15, 2017

MILWAUKEE, Wis. —

The Wisconsin DNR and the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage District sent crews out to test the Milwaukee River water and said there are no problems.